Ovid Guzmanone of the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was arrested in the early hours of last Thursday in the middle of a strong police deployment in the city of Culiacán, state of Sinaloa. Subsequently, the drug dealer was transferred to the prison Altiplanothe same one where he was confined and his father escaped.
In a striking security strategy and to avoid making the information public, the Mexican authorities sent a convoy of eight vehicles that left from the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (Femdo) in the Mexican capital. Then, from the same place, a helicopter departed where Ovidio was.
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House where the son of Chapo Guzmán was captured in Mexico was destroyed
With traces of blood, hundreds of casings and just over a dozen armored vehicles with bullet holes is the house where Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán, was arrested in Sinaloa, located in Sinaloa, to the north of Mexico.
Ovidio, the son of “El Chapo” Guzmán, legally shielded himself from express extradition to the US.
Ovidio Guzmán obtained a judicial suspension against an immediate extradition to the US, which requires it for drug trafficking, according to a ruling released last Friday.
“The ex officio suspension of acts consisting of deportation, expulsion, extradition and its execution is decreed outright” so that it is not handed over to the government of the United States of America, nor to any other State,” the resolution states. .
Son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán: who is he and what is he accused of?
Ovid was one of the little-known heirs of the Sinaloa cartel until the acquaintanceculiacanazo” of October 17, 2019, a mistaken operation of the Government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in which the authorities captured him, but he was later released after acts of terror by organized crime in Culiacán. Ovidio is one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
El ‘Chapo’ Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the United States. Composition: Gerson Cardoso-LR/EFE
How much was the reward offered by the US for Ovidio Guzmán?
Although Ovidio knew how to keep a low profile, since 2012 the US Government included him on the list of international drug traffickers “Kingpin Act” because it considered that he was playing “a significant role in his father’s activities.”
Amid its rising profile, Washington offered five million dollars in December 2021 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Ovidio, in addition to his brothers Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar y Joaquin Guzman Lopezknown as “the Chapitos”.
How was the attack on the Aeroméxico plane during its recapture?
During the scramble for the recapture of Ovid Guzmanson of the most popular drug trafficker in Mexicothe ‘Chapo’ GuzmanThe airline Aeromexico reported that one of its units received a bullet wound at the Culiacán airport, Sinaloa. The passengers experienced moments of panic and tension, in which they fell back to the ground to protect themselves.
The company reported, through a statement, that the flight AM165 was hit by a bullet in the fuselage of the unit. According to the collaborators, after the event, the emergency protocols were activated to keep the passengers inside the plane safe.
Blockades in Culiacán after the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán. Photo: AFP
Who is Adriana Meza, the alleged wife of Ovidio Guzmán?
Adriana Meza Torres has a life away from the media. She is known as “The New Queen of the Sinaloa Cartel” because she is believed to be the wife of Ovidio Guzmán, son of the drug trafficker known as “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) reported that it is presumed that this young woman has long-standing ties to drug trafficking, since her father would be Raúl Meza, better known as “M-6”, who died in a shootout in 2007 during the War against Narco in Culiacán.
With information from EFE and AFP.